Tire.



A. T. TIZARD.

TIRE.

APPLIOATION FILED JULY 24, 1908.

Patented NW. .23, 1909.

a? i Q [Z Swwenfoz UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

941,289. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Nov. 23, 1909. Application filed July 24, 1908. Serial No. 445,225.

To all whom *it-may concern: 17 receive fastening nuts 18 for securely Be it known that I, ALBERT T. TIZARD, a. holding the detachable flange engaged with citizen of the United States, residing at Duthe rim, and to prevent displacement of the rango, in the county of La Plata and State lugs 9 from the recesses 8. By engaging the 55 of Colorado, have invented new and useful lugs 9 in the recesses 8 formed in one side of Improvements'i-n Tires, of which the folthe rim it is'obvious that the flange '11 is lowing is a specification. held against rotation.

This invention relates to automobile tires, The rim 6 is provided with a plurality of and has for an object to provide a tire which fiat corrugated leaf springs 19, the out- 60 10 will be simple in construction, and which wardly extending Iportion 20 of each spring will embody a plurality of springs carried contacting normal y with an annular metalby the rim of a wheel and which are prolic lining formed of a pluralityof segments tected or inclosed by a leather casing, thus 21 secured to the tread portion 22 of a casproviding a puncture proof tire. ing. The tread portion 22 of the casing is 65 A further object of the invention is to provided with side walls or flaps 23 disprovide a casing of simple construction posed at their lower ends outwardly of the which may be conveniently applied to or flanges of the rim 6. The side-walls or removed from a wheel. a'nges have secured thereto members 24 in Other objects and advantages will be apwhich are pivotally mounted rings 25, and 70 parent as the nature of the invention is more through these rings a retaining cord or flexi fully disclosed, and it will of course b ble element 26 is laced for retaining the easunderstood that certain changes in the struc- .ing to the rim. The inwardly directed porture of the invention may be resorted to tions 27 of the corrugated springs are passed within the scope of the appended claim. beneath the pins 14 and 17 and are conse- 75 In the drawings forming a portion f this quently held against casual, displacement.

specification, and in which like numerals of A tire and run as herein set forth and dereference indicate similar parts in the sevscribed is extremely simple to manufacture, eral views, Figure 1 is partly a side view may be put upon the market at a small cost, and partly a sectional view of qiportion of a is very elastic when in use, and may be as- 80 30 vehicle wheel disclosing the present inv sembled or disassembled by those unskilled (i Fi 2 i ti al i on th li in the manufacture of a device as described. 2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail sectional 'Having thus fully described the invention view through a portion of the rim of the h s i ed s new is! wheel. The combination with a vehicle rim pro- 85 Referring now more particularly to the vided with a fixed annular flangeat one side drawings, there is shown a portion of a veand'a r movable annular flan e at the other hicle wheel 5 comprising a rim 6 having at side: of an annular series of rollers jourone side an annular flange 7. The rim, at naled at their ends in said flanges and disthe other side is provided with a plurality posed in spaced relation to the inner sur- 90 40 of recesses 8 for receiving lugs or bosses 9 face of the rim, a casing provided with an carried by a detachable flange 11. Each of annular [read portion disposed in spaced rethe flanges 7 and llrespectively is provided lation to the rollers and provided with parwith a plurality of passages 12 for-receiv- 4 'allel spaced side walls having their inner exing trunnions 13 carried by pins or rollers tremities disposed outwardly of the flanges 95 14. The flanges are also provided with of the rim, members carried by the Walls of similar passagesy15 for receiving the threadthe casing and provided at their inner ends ed ends 16' formed on the ends of similar with ivotally mounted rings, a retainin pins 17. The pins 14 and 17 are disposed in cord aced through said rings to hold the spaced relation to the outer surface of the casing to the rim, a metallic l ning secured 100.

T1111 6 for a purpose to be hereinafter de- 1 upon the inner side-of the trez. portion of =.seribed. The threaded ends 16 of the pins the casing and comprising a series of sections secured to said tread portion and hawdirected curved portions engaged with the ing their side edges terminating at points metallic lining for the casing.

adjacent to the outer ends of the side walls In testimon whereof I aflix my signature of the casing, and an annular series of in presence 0- two-"witnesses.

springs arranged parallel to each other and ALBERT T. TIZARD. corrugated to provide inwardly directed \Vitnessesz curved portions engaged with the rim and JOHN R. BALL,

disposed beneath the rollers, and outwardly ELMER E. PETERSON. 

